The Communal Republics of Lavenna

Written by Spaceorca5

Born from the ashes of a ravaged continent, the myriad diverse communes of Lavenna have transcended millennia of division and subjugation to establish a democratic nation of equals, dedicated to the sustainable stewardship of nature and peaceful coexistence among one another.

"Lavenna is not bound by blood nor borders, but by a shared promise: to repair what was broken, to live with—not above—the world around us. Built in fragments, bound in care, and made stronger with each voice that joins a chorus not sung in unison, but in harmony."

- First Councillor Miranti Karsto

The Ecocommunal System

A parliamentary ecocommunal cooperative, Lavenna is composed of 22 coequal constituent republics. They are all subject to the Lavennic Constitution. Member republics are themselves composed of thousands of local Communes, which serve as the foundational collective units of the Communal Republics. According to the Lavennic Constitution, every Commune must operate as a full direct democracy. These Communes are typically very small, rarely exceeding a thousand citizens, with most averaging just a few hundred. Their limited size allows for an intimate political sphere, where decisions are made by neighbors and peers within the same community. While Communes enjoy substantial autonomy and flexibility in governance, they remain bound by the national laws and ecological regulations of the LCR.

History

Government

Member Republics

The Jewels of the Volarra

The Heartlands

The Northern Frontiers

Culture

Lavenna was founded on three main principles (as listed within the Lavennic Constitution):

ENVOST:

The natural environment is to be protected at all costs, and shall be integrated in the most sustainable way possible wherever possible. Crimes against the environment are to be treated in the same manner as crimes against a human being. To transgress this is equivalent to an act of treason of the highest degree. Sustainability is to be a core principle, meaning that social, economic, and especially environmental sustainability are to take absolute precedence over any other factors such as efficiency or utility. The use of renewable energy, sustainable communal food production, restorative agriculture, and other sustainable practices are to be considered essential. Nature is never to be viewed as a resource to be owned or exploited, but rather as an integral and crucial component of human wellbeing and habitat. The Universal Rights of Nature are to be respected to the utmost degree.
UNIVOST:

COMVOST:

Home to countless distinct ethnicities, cultures and ideologies, Lavenna as a whole aspires toward cooperation and multicultural understanding.

Demography and Population

Lavenna is home to an immensely diverse population of around 128 million people, according to the national census of 485 AGL. In fact, its population is so incredibly diverse that no single ethnic group makes up any more than 20% or so of the total population. For centuries, this immense diversity made the region a hotbed for brutal ethnic conflict and cultural violence. The Birthright Wars were also particularly violent in Lavenna since almost half of the entire new culture population settled in the landmass. Today, just over half of Lavenna's inhabitants are of skyborn heritage or descent, with the largest skyborn ethnicity being the Seriphanese, with a staggering 34 million people. They are followed by the Fleurois, with around 20 million. Next is the Matroshki, with just over 15 million, divided roughly evenly between Vastonyan and Meroskvar Matroshki. Meanwhile, the most populous founder ethnicity is that of the Vardish, with 22 million in total, followed by the Volarri, Aldanti, and Rodanyans.

As a result of its immense diversity, there is no official national language, although Laveranto and French generally serve that role informally. Ever since the Liberalist majority government after 488 AGL, there has been a major focus on language pluralisation over standardisation, with the government strongly pushing for multilingualism as a requirement. So far, this multilingual emphasis has been quite successful, with the average citizen speaking 3 languages fluently, although multilingualism has been common in Lavenna for centuries already.

Religion

Lavenna is an incredibly religiously diverse nation. No religion or set of beliefs has an absolute majority, even within most of the member republics. This has made secularism an important cornerstone of Lavenna, and religious tolerance and acceptance is heavily encouraged. The majority of religious sects of the nation are categorised as un-theistic, or in other words do not place any power in a higher being. Universalism is prevalent in sporadic pockets across Lavenna, and heavily practiced in the southern regions, mostly in major cities. Meanwhile, the highly ritualised Voulantism is almost exclusively centred around eastern Vastonya and surrounding areas, with pockets through the rest of Lavenna. Up in the towering Merkostas, Integralism is heavily entrenched. The Vards mostly follow their own faith known as Ka'valim, or "the followers of Kal". Finally, countless local traditional beliefs are interspersed throughout the nation in a vast diversity. Lavenna also has a considerable atheist population, making up just under half the population.

Agriculture & Industry

Owing to its forever coveted fertile land across the heart of the nation, Lavenna has long been considered the "breadbasket of the world". While the majority of the land across the planet is still smothered in vast barren wastes, laden with anaemic and rugged life, Lavenna is home to some of the few surviving indigenous regions on the planet. Vastonya in particular is renowned for its verdancy, and while desert still covers a good majority of Lavenna as a whole, its political, economic, and cultural core to the south of the vast Merkosta mountains is swaddled in a criss-crossing of rivers and lakes, and vast stretches of farmland. As such, Lavenna has long been mostly driven by agriculture and its predecessors were mostly agrarian societies, trading bountiful quantities of grain, bullroot, etc via countless canals and the three seas that surround the landmass. During the great understanding, while Lavenna was still divided between a myriad of squabbling states, many made significant attempts at industrialisation. The Parvanto dynasty in particular, who once controlled what is now the political heart of the nation, Boralto, rapidly transformed their nation into an industrial powerhouse. The Klypsid Clique of Katrushta also made a great push to industrialisation. Both cities, for quite some time, were well known as being smoke-choked and laden with thousands of chimneys.

Trade & Transport

Following decades of intensive reconstruction efforts, which especially began to accelerate under the premiership of Kelmar Harval, the widespread construction of high speed rail (see: The Lavennic High Speed Rail Network) connections between major cities has proven to be a major success. As a whole, rail based transportation both for passengers and for goods has become the dominant form of transport by a large margin, with new high speed and regional lines being constructed at an ever increasing pace, with a particularly concentrated effort by current First Councillor Kaiessa Isoviya nearly quadrupling its total length.
Historically, before the rediscovery of rail transportation, the major underpinning of Lavennic trade had been maritime vessels. The Continental War and its complete devastation of the mainland, which crippled existing road networks and rail lines, only further heightened this historical reliance on the sea for a time. Lavenna and its constituent republics, except for those landlocked, have always been adept and inventive seafarers and as such the development of low-drag skimmers has allowed for rapid sea based trade and transit to become a major form of regional and trans national transportation. This is facilitated by both the fact that Lavenna is surrounded on three sides by sea, but also by its extensive network of canals, which fared much better during the destruction of the continental war.

Inei Dhanousa nu'Elouthei-na Solenna (from communal care, a brighter tomorrow is born)

Maps

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  The Communal Republics of Lavenna (500 AGL)

Population
125.3 Million

Founding Date

1 EC

Type

Geopolitical, Country

Capital

Boralto

Alternative Names

Lavenna, Lavennic Federation, Communal Republics of Lavenna, LCR

Predecessor Organization

• Ecocommunal Council of Lavenna

Demonym

Lavennic

Leader

Kaiessa Isoviya

Leader Title

First Councillor

Government System

Democracy, Parliamentary

Power Structure

Federation

Currency

No Currency - Communal Economy

Legislative Body

Lavennic Parliament

Judicial Body

Lavennic Supreme Arbitration

Subsidiary Organizations

• High Communal Arbitration
• Lavennic Parliament

Controlled Territories

• Boralto

Neighboring Nations

• Commonwealth of Kannosta

Related Ethnicities

• Ardanti
• Fleurois
• Kofarsi
• Matroshki
• Nuvo Vaaran
• V'sardhi

Related Historical Events

• 1 EC
  Miranti Karsto Elected as First Councillor
• 1 EC
  Founding of the Communal Republics of Lavenna